CHARLES E. JONES
Work Address
Blegen Library
54 Souidias Street
10676 Athens
Greece
Voice: (011-30) 210-72-36-313 ext. 120
Facsimile: (011-30) 210-72-94-047 / 210-72-50-584
E-Mail: ce-jones@ascsa.edu.gr / cejo@midway.uchicago.edu
EDUCATION
University of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Completed required course work towards a Ph.D. in Near Eastern history, 1980
Focus: History of Mesopotamia and Iran; Assyriology; Elamite Language
A.M. Summer 2005
University of Wisconsin: Madison, Wisconsin
B.A., Department of History, 1976
EMPLOYMENT
Responsible for the operation and development of the American School of Classical Studies Research Library on Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology.
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Research Archivist - Bibliographer April 1983 June 2005
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Responsible for the operation and development of the Research Archives, which is the primary research facility of The Oriental Institute and the foremost library on the Ancient Near East in the Western Hemisphere.
Tablet Collection Supervisor July 1977 - September 1981
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Responsible for the organization, safekeeping, conservation and reference services for The Oriental Institutes collection of cuneiform tablets.
PUBLICATIONS
Review of: Archives and
Libraries in the Ancient Near East, 1500-300 B.C. By Olof Pedersen.
Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press,
1998. xxii, 291 pp. $42.00. ISBN
1-883053-39-0. In Libraries
& Cultyre: A Journal of Library History. Volume
39, Number 3 (Summer 2004)
The Oriental Institute Research Archives Unified Abbreviations List for Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Compiled by the Staff of the Research Archives under the Supervision and Editorship of Charles E. Jones.1st (local) edition, Winter 2004. ca. Twelve thousand entries. Web-accessible version currently in production.
With Wouter Henkelman and Matthew W. Stolper, Achaemenid clay bullae with seal impressions in the Dutch Institute of the Near East (NINO), Leiden, ARTA: Achaemenid Researches on Texts and Archaeology (2004)
www.achemenet.com/ressources/enligne/arta/table.htm
With Matthew W. Stolper.
Hallock, Richard T., Encyclopaedia Iranica. New York: Bibliotheca Persica; 2003. Volume XI, Fascicle 6 : Hajj
Sayyah Harem. Pages 592-594.
Garrison, Mark B.; Root,
Margaret Cool. Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. With Seal Inscription Readings by Charles E. Jones.
Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 2001. 2 volumes
(xxxiv + 562 pages [including 25 charts, 9 figures, and an illustrated
catalogue of 312 seals] + 291 plates). (Oriental Institute Publications; v.
117). ISBN: 1-885923-12-0.
Oriental
Institute Research Archives Acquisition List, N.A.B.U. Nouvelles Assyriologiques
Brves et Utilitaires Volume 2000 , Number
4 (Dcembre 2000).
Bibliography of the Publications and Communications of
Edward F. Wente Through October 1999, Essays in Ancient Civilization
Presented to Edward F. Wente, edited by
Emily Teeter and John Larson, pages xxv-xxxi. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of
Chicago; 2000. (Studies in Ancient Oriental
Civilization. 58).
With David Schloen, "Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Ariadne, No. 22 (December 1999)
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/
Ziabarna (*Ciafarnah), not Uabarna in PFS 36*, N.A.B.U.: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brves et Utilitaires, Volume 1999, Number 3 (September 1999).
The Web Editor: Abzu and Beyond, Ariadne, No. 21 (September 1999).
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/
With John C. Sanders, Oriental Institute Electronic Resources, The Oriental Institute Annual Report. [Annually 1994-2004]
The Oriental Institute Research Archives Acquisitions List with an Indexed List of Essays Articles and Reviews. (Editor). Published by The Oriental Institute quarterly from January 1992-July 1994; Published bi-monthly from 1984-1991
Oriental Institute Research Archives Bibliographical and Informational Documents: Supplements to Oriental Institute Research Archives Acquisitions List. (Editor). Published occasionally since 1992.
No. 1: Paul M. Cobb. Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute Research Archives: A Guide to Resources. [1992].
No. 2: Terry G. Wilfong. Women in the Ancient Near East: A Select Bibliography of Recent Sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives. [1992]
Subsequent issues of the series are available exclusively on line [see below].
Bibliography of Miguel Civil (through 15 November 1991), Velles Paraules: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Miguel Civil on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by P. Michalowski, P. Steinkeller, E. C. Stone and R. L. Zettler. Pages 283-290. Barcelona: Editorial Ausa; 1993. (Aula Orientalis: Revista de Estudios del Prximo Oriente Antiguo; v. 9:1-2 [enero/julio 1991]).
Mesopotamian Bookshelf, Mar ipri, Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1990).
Dissertations Completed, Directory of North American Egyptologists. [Appearing annually since 1990].
Pirradazi: Bulletin of Achaemenian Studies. (Editor). [This semi-annual newsletter first appeared in July 1990. The eighth and final issue appeared in April 1994].
Bibliography of the Publications and Communications of Helene J. Kantor (through June 15, 1988) , Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor, edited by Albert Leonard and Bruce Beyer Williams. Pages xxxi-xxxix. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; 1989. (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization; v. 47).
With M. W. Stolper, Two Late Elamite Tablets at Yale, Fragmenta historiae elamicae: Mlanges offerts M. J. Steve, edited by L. De Meyer, H. Gasche and F. Vallat. Pages 243-254. Paris: ditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1986.
Research Archives, The Oriental Institute Annual Report. [Annually 1983-2004]
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet. (Editor). Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East. Abzu seeks to provide a hypertextual guide to this material through a series of interrelated indexes on the World Wide Web:
www.etana.org/abzu/
Abzu
has been selected as one of the University of Chicago Library CORC [Cooperative
Online Resource Catalog] projects:
www.lib.uchicago.edu/staffweb/depts/cat/corc/home.html
For complete information on CORC see the OCLC Web pages at:
www.oclc.org/research/publications/arr/1998/hickey/corc.htm
For
samples of material catalogued in Abzu in recent months see:
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNewFeb04.html
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/AbzuNewMar04.html
ANE List [Ancient Near East]. (List owner and Moderator). An academic on-line discussion group focusing on subjects relating to the Ancient Near East, from the Indus to the Nile, and from the beginnings of human habitation to the rise of Islam. Ca. 1400 current subscribers:
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html
ANENews [A moderated sub-set of the above]
listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/anenews
A Bibliography of Ugaritic Grammar
and Biblical Hebrew Grammar in the Twentieth Century. By Mark S. Smith (Editor
and Pubisher)
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/bibs/BH-Ugaritic.html
ETANA-Abzu-news: Providing occasional reports on developments at ETANA and Abzu.. (List owner and Moderator).
listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ETANA-Abzu-news
Iraq Bibliographiess. (Editor and Compiler]. An index of bibliographies compiled in response to the cultural heritage crisis in Iraq during and after the war in Spring 2003.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/IraqBibs.html
Iraqi Library Stamps. (Compiler and Editor) Chicago: Middle East Librarians Association; 2004.
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LibraryStamps/LibraryStamps.htm
IraqCrisis. (List-owner and Moderator). A moderated list for communicating substantive information on cultural property damaged, destroyed or lost from Libraries and Museums in Iraq during and after the war in April 2003, and on the worldwide response to the crisis
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/melairaq.html
The Middle East Librarians Association: Committee on Iraqi Libraries. (Member of the Committee and Web-Editor). This web-based resource has published a wide variety of documentation on the Library situation in both pre- and post-war Iraq, including
Report on
the Central Awqaf Library and Report on the Central Library of Baghdad
University / Al-Waziriya, by Zain Al-Naqshbandi.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/zan.html
The Library of Congress and the Cultural Property Office of the US Department of State Mission To Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts. October 27-November 3, 2003
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/melairaq.html
Middle
East MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries: Aims & Strategies
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/melaaims.html
Names and
Contact Information for Senior Administrators and Librarians at Institutions in
Iraq
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/University_contacts.htm
Bosnian
Libraries: Their Fate in the War and Responses to it, with Lessons for Iraq
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/CAA_Spurr.htm
The Iraqi
Jewish Archive Preservation Report
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/IraqiJewishArchiveReport.htm
Iraq
Manuscript Collections, Archives, & Libraries: Situation Report
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/docs/nat.html
List of Manuscript Catalogs of Iraqi
Museums and Libraries
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/MSScats.htm
OI Newsletter. (Editor) Nine issues annually each month October-June All current and back issues have been published on-line this year.
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/oi-newsletter
On-Line Catalogue of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute. (Editor). The on-line catalogue of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute is an extension of, and ultimately a successor to, the card catalogue of the collection. Following in the tradition established by the Oriental Institute collections (which merged with the University of Chicago Libraries a quarter-century ago) all cataloguing is produced locally, and includes analytical entries for each essay, article, and review included in materials acquired for the collection. The on-line catalogue covers materials acquired in the collection since the late nineteen-eighties, as well as including substantial corpora of retrospective conversions. The catalogue has been accessible locally since 1990 and globally since January 2000.
oilib.uchicago.edu/oilibcat.html
Oriental Institute Research Archives Acquisitions Lists. (Editor). For many years, lists of recent acquisitions in the Research Archives were produced periodically and distributed informally. For a period in the 1990s the acquisitions lists were published more formally (see above), but that ambitious project was abandoned in 1995. Beginning in the Summer of 2000 the Research Archives Acquisitions Lists are distributed monthly -- free of charge -- by means of an automated e-mailing list called "RAbooks". These are also published on the web.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RABooks.html
The Oriental Institute On-Line. (Collaborator and Co-Editor with John C. Sanders). A developing resource presenting the Oriental Institute on the World Wide Web. Initially conceived of as an on-line analog of the Oriental Institutes public education and membership publications and presentations, we have now developed The Oriental Institute On-line far beyond that. It currently presents a complex mixture of republished and original scholarship, imaginative use of still and motion imagery, remote access to museum, archival and photographic collections, news and information, and expert reference services for the international community:
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/default.html
Oriental Institute Research Archives Bibliographical and Informational Documents. (Editor). Beginning with No. 2 these documents are on-line:
2. Women in the Ancient Near East: A Select Bibliography of Recent [1988-1992] Sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives, by Terry G. Wilfong.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML
3. Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet, by Charles E. Jones.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML
4. Dissertation Proposals in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Approved by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago
Egyptian Women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Economic and Legal Activities of Women in Demotic Texts, by Alexandra A. OBrien. [This dissertation is now complete].
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/OBRIEN_DISSPROP_TEXT.HTML
Political Change and Cultural Continuity in Eshnunna from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian Period, by Clemens Reichel.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/Reichel_diss.html
The Socioeconomic Organization of the Metalworkers During the Late Bronze Period at Ugarit, by Jill Ashley Fine.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/Fine_diss.html
Technological Style in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, by Elizabeth S. Friedman. [This dissertation is now complete].
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/Friedman_diss.html
A Structural Analysis of Ben Sira 40:11- 44:15, by Eric Reymond. [This dissertation is now complete].
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/Reymond_diss.html
Continuity and Change of Reproductive Beliefs and Practices in Egypt from Ancient to Modern Times, by Nicole B. Hansen
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/DISPROP/hansen_diss.html
5. Death in Ancient Egypt, by Alexandra A. OBrien.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEATH.HTML
6. Demotic Texts published on the World Wide Web, by Alexandra A. OBrien.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEMOTIC_WWW.HTML
7. Directory of North American Egyptologists, edited by Richard H. Wilkinson and Charles E. Jones.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/EGDIR_INTRO.HTML
8. Disjecta Membra in Araneo - Scattered Remains on the Web, by Alexandra A. OBrien.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ARCETALK.HTML
9. Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Web Resources for Young People and Teachers, by Alexandra A. O'Brien.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/YOUTH_RESOURCES.HTML
10. Recommended Reading On The Ancient Near East: A Guide to Introductory Readings on the Ancient Near Eastern World, a collaborative publication of the Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, the Oriental Institute Museum, and the Oriental Institute Museum Education Program.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/RECREAD/REC_READ.html
11. Web Guides and Tools for the Oriental Institute Web site.
Search the Oriental Institute
Web Space.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/OI_Search.html
Persepolis and Ancient Iran: Thumbnail Images from Oriental Institute Web Pages.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Iranthumbs.html
Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Thumbnail Images from Oriental Institute Web Pages.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Egyptthumbs.html
Oriental Institute Research Archives: Directory of Resources, Introduction and Guide. (Editor). Including on-line versions of recent issues of: Research Archives and Oriental Institute Electronic Resources [see above]:
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Research_Arch.html
Pictures of Damaged Libraries in Iraq, (Compiler and Editor). Chicago: Middle East Librarians Association; 2004.
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/LibraryPix/LibraryPix.htm
Preliminary bibliography of books documenting the contents of the Iraq Museum, the National Library and Archives, and the MS collection of the Ministry of Religious Endowments - all in Baghdad - as well as of other damaged or destroyed collections in Baghdad or elsewhere in Iraq including Mosul, Basrah, Suleimaniyeh, etc., Oriental Institute Research Archives On-Line. Chicago: The Oriental Institute; 2004; in Association with Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraq Libraries.
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq_bibliography.html
Preliminary Bibliography Of Publications Documenting The Cylinder And Stamp Seals And Seal Impressions In The Collections Of The Iraq Museum Baghdad, and an index by museum number of objects published in the Preliminary Bibliography, Oriental Institute Research Archives On-Line. Chicago: The Oriental Institute; 2004; in Association with Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraq Libraries.
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/SealBib1.htm
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/SealBibInx1.htm
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Bibliographies of the work of the Gene B. Gragg and Robert D. Biggs to appear in:
Papers in Comparative Semitics and Afroasiatic from a Symposium in Honor of Gene B. Gragg. Edited by Cynthia L. Miller. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 60.
and
Studies Presented to Robert
D. Biggs, June 4, 2004, from the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Edited by Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber, and
Matthew W. Stolper
With Matthew W. Stolper, A
survey of Scatttered Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Tablets, To
appear in the Proceedings of The First International Conference on the
Ancient Cultural Relations Between Iran and West Asia, Tehran, August 2003 (2005?)
IN PREPARATION
Arabic Documents from the Oriental Institute Museum. The Oriental Institute in collaboration with Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center, Cairo; Forthcoming. [CD-ROM publication - Being the initial photographic documentation with a catalogue and related material covering a substantial portion of the Oriental Institutes collection of early Arabic texts, including Qur'ans, documentary, and literary texts]
The Oriental Institute Archaeological Newsletter, 1950-1973. Chicago: The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute; Forthcoming . [Web-based publication of two and a half decades of archaeological letters from the field]
With M. W. Stolper. New Texts from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, Edited from the Notes of Richard T. Hallock and Based on Autopsy of the Tablets: PFNN.0001 - PFNN.0600. To be published on-line by The Oriental Institute. [Initial publication of a substantial corpus of documentary texts in Elamite from Persepolis (509-494 B.C.E.)]
Aegeo-Anatolian Documents from the Persepolis Fortification Archive.
The Greek Inscriptions from the Fratakara Temple at Persepolis.
The Find Spot of the Archive in the Northern Fortification Wall on the Terrace at Persepolis.
A Guide to Bibliographical Sources and Resources for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean World.
EDITORIAL BOARDS - COMMITTEES
achemenet: Sur le moyen et long terme, lobjectif est doffrir aux
collgues, aux tudiants et au grand public un accs direct toute la
documentation d'poque achmnide.
Member of the Steering Committee.
Alexandria Archive Institute. Member of
the Advisory Board.
www.alexandriaarchive.org
Ariadne. Ariadne magazine is aimed at both librarians and
information science professionals in academic libraries, and also to interested
lay people in the UK Higher Education community. Coordinator for text encoding,
available web resources, and tool developments relating to the Ancient Near
East.
www.ariadne.ac.uk
ARTA: Achaemenid Researches on Texts and Archaeology. Member of the Editorial Board
www.achemenet.com/ressources/enligne/arta/arta.htm
CNRS. Groupe
de Recherche 2538 RIERA: Rseau international d'tudes et de
recherches achmnides
ETANA: Electronic tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives. Chairman of the Content Committee of
this project, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/etana
Middle East Librarians Association Committee on Iraqi Libraries. Member of the Committee, Editor of the web presence.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/mela/melairaq.html
Oriental Institute Iraq Working Group. Member of the Committee, co-Editor of the Web presence.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html
XSTAR: XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research. Adviser and Pilot Data Provider.
oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/XSTAR/XSTAR.html
American Historical Association
American Library Association
American Oriental Society
American Philological Association
American Research Center in Egypy
American Society of Papyrologists
International Association of Egyptologists
International Association of Orientalist Librarians
Melcom International: The European Association of Middle East Librarians
Middle East Librarians Association
Society of Ancient Historians